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k a April Highlights and 2025 AoPS Online Class Information
jlacosta   0
Apr 2, 2025
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k i Adding contests to the Contest Collections
dcouchman   1
N Apr 5, 2023 by v_Enhance
Want to help AoPS remain a valuable Olympiad resource? Help us add contests to AoPS's Contest Collections.

Find instructions and a list of contests to add here: https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c40244h1064480_contests_to_add
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dcouchman
Sep 9, 2019
v_Enhance
Apr 5, 2023
k i Zero tolerance
ZetaX   49
N May 4, 2019 by NoDealsHere
Source: Use your common sense! (enough is enough)
Some users don't want to learn, some other simply ignore advises.
But please follow the following guideline:


To make it short: ALWAYS USE YOUR COMMON SENSE IF POSTING!
If you don't have common sense, don't post.


More specifically:

For new threads:


a) Good, meaningful title:
The title has to say what the problem is about in best way possible.
If that title occured already, it's definitely bad. And contest names aren't good either.
That's in fact a requirement for being able to search old problems.

Examples:
Bad titles:
- "Hard"/"Medium"/"Easy" (if you find it so cool how hard/easy it is, tell it in the post and use a title that tells us the problem)
- "Number Theory" (hey guy, guess why this forum's named that way¿ and is it the only such problem on earth¿)
- "Fibonacci" (there are millions of Fibonacci problems out there, all posted and named the same...)
- "Chinese TST 2003" (does this say anything about the problem¿)
Good titles:
- "On divisors of a³+2b³+4c³-6abc"
- "Number of solutions to x²+y²=6z²"
- "Fibonacci numbers are never squares"


b) Use search function:
Before posting a "new" problem spend at least two, better five, minutes to look if this problem was posted before. If it was, don't repost it. If you have anything important to say on topic, post it in one of the older threads.
If the thread is locked cause of this, use search function.

Update (by Amir Hossein). The best way to search for two keywords in AoPS is to input
[code]+"first keyword" +"second keyword"[/code]
so that any post containing both strings "first word" and "second form".


c) Good problem statement:
Some recent really bad post was:
[quote]$lim_{n\to 1}^{+\infty}\frac{1}{n}-lnn$[/quote]
It contains no question and no answer.
If you do this, too, you are on the best way to get your thread deleted. Write everything clearly, define where your variables come from (and define the "natural" numbers if used). Additionally read your post at least twice before submitting. After you sent it, read it again and use the Edit-Button if necessary to correct errors.


For answers to already existing threads:


d) Of any interest and with content:
Don't post things that are more trivial than completely obvious. For example, if the question is to solve $x^{3}+y^{3}=z^{3}$, do not answer with "$x=y=z=0$ is a solution" only. Either you post any kind of proof or at least something unexpected (like "$x=1337, y=481, z=42$ is the smallest solution). Someone that does not see that $x=y=z=0$ is a solution of the above without your post is completely wrong here, this is an IMO-level forum.
Similar, posting "I have solved this problem" but not posting anything else is not welcome; it even looks that you just want to show off what a genius you are.

e) Well written and checked answers:
Like c) for new threads, check your solutions at least twice for mistakes. And after sending, read it again and use the Edit-Button if necessary to correct errors.



To repeat it: ALWAYS USE YOUR COMMON SENSE IF POSTING!


Everything definitely out of range of common sense will be locked or deleted (exept for new users having less than about 42 posts, they are newbies and need/get some time to learn).

The above rules will be applied from next monday (5. march of 2007).
Feel free to discuss on this here.
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ZetaX
Feb 27, 2007
NoDealsHere
May 4, 2019
Inspired by 1984 IMO Problem 1
sqing   1
N 20 minutes ago by sqing
Source: Own
Let $ a,b,c\geq 0 $ and $ a+b+c+a^2+b^2+c^2=1. $ Prove that$$ab+bc+ca-2abc\le\dfrac{9}{2}-\dfrac{17}{6}\sqrt{\dfrac{7}{3}}$$
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sqing
24 minutes ago
sqing
20 minutes ago
3D russian combo
egxa   1
N 27 minutes ago by pi_quadrat_sechstel
Source: All Russian 2025 11.4
A natural number \(N\) is given. A cube with side length \(2N + 1\) is made up of \((2N + 1)^3\) unit cubes, each of which is either black or white. It turns out that among any $8$ cubes that share a common vertex and form a \(2 \times 2 \times 2\) cube, there are at most $4$ black cubes. What is the maximum number of black cubes that could have been used?
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egxa
6 hours ago
pi_quadrat_sechstel
27 minutes ago
Existence of perfect squares
egxa   1
N 29 minutes ago by Tintarn
Source: All Russian 2025 10.3
Find all natural numbers \(n\) for which there exists an even natural number \(a\) such that the number
\[
(a - 1)(a^2 - 1)\cdots(a^n - 1)
\]is a perfect square.
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egxa
6 hours ago
Tintarn
29 minutes ago
Interesting inequality
sqing   0
38 minutes ago
Source: Own
Let $ a,b,c\geq 0 $ and $ a+b+c=3. $ Prove that$$ab(1-c)+bc(1-a)+ca(1-b)+\frac{9}{4}abc \leq\frac{9}{4} $$
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sqing
38 minutes ago
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Introducing myself at AoPS, and what's your magic wand?
asuth_asuth   900
N an hour ago by DaringScorpion35
Hi!

I'm Andrew Sutherland. I'm the new Chief Product Officer at AoPS. As you may have read, Richard is retiring and Ben Kornell and I are working together to lead the company now. I'm leading all the software and digital stuff at AoPS. I just wanted to say hello and introduce myself! I'm really excited to be part of the special community that is AoPS.

Previously, I founded Quizlet as a 15-year-old high school student. I did Course 6 at MIT and then left to lead Quizlet full-time for a total of 14 years. I took a few years off and now I'm doing AoPS! I wrote more about all that on my blog: https://asuth.com/im-joining-aops

I have a question for all of you. If you could wave a magic wand, and change anything about AoPS, what would it be? All suggestions welcome! Thank you.
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asuth_asuth
Mar 30, 2025
DaringScorpion35
an hour ago
Constructing sequences
SMOJ   6
N an hour ago by lightsynth123
Source: 2018 Singapore Mathematical Olympiad Senior Q5
Starting with any $n$-tuple $R_0$, $n\ge 1$, of symbols from $A,B,C$, we define a sequence $R_0, R_1, R_2,\ldots,$ according to the following rule: If $R_j= (x_1,x_2,\ldots,x_n)$, then $R_{j+1}= (y_1,y_2,\ldots,y_n)$, where $y_i=x_i$ if $x_i=x_{i+1}$ (taking $x_{n+1}=x_1$) and $y_i$ is the symbol other than $x_i, x_{i+1}$ if $x_i\neq x_{i+1}$. Find all positive integers $n>1$ for which there exists some integer $m>0$ such that $R_m=R_0$.
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SMOJ
Mar 31, 2020
lightsynth123
an hour ago
Sum of divisors
DinDean   0
an hour ago
Does there exist $M>0$, such that $\forall m>M$, there exists an integer $n$ satisfying $\sigma(n)=m$?
$\sigma(n)=$ the sum of all positive divisors of $n$.
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DinDean
an hour ago
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A problem with non-negative a,b,c
KhuongTrang   4
N an hour ago by KhuongTrang
Source: own
Problem. Let $a,b,c$ be non-negative real variables with $ab+bc+ca\neq 0.$ Prove that$$\color{blue}{\sqrt{\frac{8a^{2}+\left(b-c\right)^{2}}{\left(b+c\right)^{2}}}+\sqrt{\frac{8b^{2}+\left(c-a\right)^{2}}{\left(c+a\right)^{2}}}+\sqrt{\frac{8c^{2}+\left(a-b\right)^{2}}{\left(a+b\right)^{2}}}\ge \sqrt{\frac{18(a^{2}+b^{2}+c^{2})}{ab+bc+ca}}.}$$Equality holds iff $(a,b,c)\sim(t,t,t)$ or $(a,b,c)\sim(t,t,0)$ where $t>0.$
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KhuongTrang
Mar 4, 2025
KhuongTrang
an hour ago
Circles tangent to AD and AB intersect on AC
gghx   3
N an hour ago by aidenkim119
Source: SMO senior 2024 Q1
In an acute triangle $ABC$, $AC>AB$, $D$ is the point on $BC$ such that $AD=AB$. Let $\omega_1$ be the circle through $C$ tangent to $AD$ at $D$, and $\omega_2$ the circle through $C$ tangent to $AB$ at $B$. Let $F(\ne C)$ be the second intersection of $\omega_1$ and $\omega_2$. Prove that $F$ lies on $AC$.
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gghx
Aug 3, 2024
aidenkim119
an hour ago
Math problem
Glist   1
N an hour ago by Glist
Given six distinct points on a plane, all pairwise distances between which are different. Prove that there exists a line segment connecting two of these points which is the longest side in one triangle formed by three of the points, and the shortest side in another triangle formed by three of the points.
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Glist
an hour ago
Glist
an hour ago
Inspired by All-Russian Olympiad 1990
sqing   0
an hour ago
Source: Own
Let $0 \leq  a,b,c \leq 1. $ Prove that$$ a(1-b^2)+ \frac{5}{4}b^2(1-c)+c(1-a^2)  \leq\frac{5}{4}$$
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sqing
an hour ago
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Question
jjmmxx   2
N 4 hours ago by jjmmxx
"New users are not allowed to post images in the Community."
Can you tell me about this...?
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jjmmxx
4 hours ago
jjmmxx
4 hours ago
bar color
jusluo   6
N Yesterday at 10:13 PM by jkim0656
im wondering why my progress bar hasnt turned to a different shade of color after hitting a milestone. I passed orange, and it didn't turn to that color, its still grey (this is in week 12.) is there something I can do to fix it?
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jusluo
Yesterday at 7:19 PM
jkim0656
Yesterday at 10:13 PM
k repeated deletion of EGMO threads in HSO
InterLoop   3
N Yesterday at 1:45 PM by EeEeRUT
I hope posting this in Site Support is fine? I'm not sure whether an HSO admin is doing this but-

The EGMO 2025 problem 1 and problem 2 were originally posted by me on the day of the contest and found deleted (not by me) yesterday. Someone else noticed this and posted the problems again, but these threads were deleted once more.
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InterLoop
Yesterday at 9:53 AM
EeEeRUT
Yesterday at 1:45 PM
Python exit() module decriptions appear as "undefined"
SoaringHigh   11
N Mar 28, 2025 by bpan2021
Summary of the problem: When using exit() (or quit()) in the Python windows on AoPS the "Description" and "To fix" options show up as "undefined"
sample program
Page URL: N/A
Steps to reproduce:
1. Use the AoPS Python module to execute the exit() or quit() functions in a program. (try running the sample program)
Expected behavior: The "Description" and "To fix" sections give a description of SystemExit
Frequency: Always
Operating system(s): Windows 11 Home
Browser(s), including version: Microsoft Edge 130.0.2849.46
Additional information: N/A
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SoaringHigh
Oct 22, 2024
bpan2021
Mar 28, 2025
Python exit() module decriptions appear as "undefined"
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Summary of the problem: When using exit() (or quit()) in the Python windows on AoPS the "Description" and "To fix" options show up as "undefined"
sample program
Page URL: N/A
Steps to reproduce:
1. Use the AoPS Python module to execute the exit() or quit() functions in a program. (try running the sample program)
Expected behavior: The "Description" and "To fix" sections give a description of SystemExit
Frequency: Always
Operating system(s): Windows 11 Home
Browser(s), including version: Microsoft Edge 130.0.2849.46
Additional information: N/A
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No the "Expected behavior:" is for what you think should happen instead of this error. Also why is this a bug of any kind???
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how did you get here?

also I would assume they were supposed to describe every error cause, SystemExit likely being one of them that should be included
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Demetri
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how did you get here?

also I would assume they were supposed to describe every error cause, SystemExit likely being one of them that should be included
You can have a system.exit error for anything. So how should you describe it in the description/To fix.
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There should not be a Description and To Fix in a system exit. Or the description should simply be about what the system exit does.
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There should not be a Description and To Fix in a system exit. Or the description should simply be about what the system exit does.

YES
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Another instance of "Description" and "To Fix" having nothing in them:
https://cdn.aops.com/images/c/7/c/c7ce05798fb071580058ac6e85169704b1f0630b.png
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there's more?

well now we can infer that that might not have been intentional lol
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  1. exit("Goodbye world")


Just reproduced.
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did it again
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It runs perfectly on visual studio code
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The problem is not with VS Code. It's with the AoPS Python widget.
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